The Role

We are currently seeking a Senior Frontend Software Engineer to join the AI Platform team, Addepar’s next-generation AI platform that enables seamless insights and interaction through natural language and data intelligence across our AI products.

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you’ll design and scale the interactive surface of AI Platform products. You’ll work at the intersection of AI, design, and systems engineering, building a class of real-time AI experiences for users — where every frame, token, and scroll behavior matters.

You will collaborate closely with product design, backend, and AI/ML engineers to deliver smooth, trustworthy AI experiences that align with Addepar’s standards of performance, transparency, and reliability.

Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country where this role is based on the first day of employment. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement complex, real-time UI features for conversational interfaces — including chat streaming, incremental rendering, and dynamic layouts.
• Build high-performance WebSocket pipelines to handle streamed deltas, retries, and backpressure gracefully.
• Optimize scrolling and rendering performance using requestAnimationFrame, virtualization, intersection observers, and non-blocking state updates.
• Implement fault-tolerant UI logic for reconnection, cancellation, offline recovery, and retry without user disruption.
• Architect state management and caching strategies to maintain consistency between local UI and backend deltas.
• Collaborate with designers to deliver accessible, responsive, and pixel-perfect interfaces across themes and viewport sizes.
• Extend Addepar’s frontend developer experience—refine the build pipeline (Vite/Webpack), test automation (Playwright, Jest), and linting/formatting standards (ESLint, Prettier).
• Instrument client-side telemetry and performance metrics to measure render latency, streaming lag, and user interaction speed.
• Mentor teammates through design reviews and pair programming, contributing to shared components and cross-product standards.
• Work closely with backend and AI/ML teams to co-design message formats, token streaming APIs, and session-level resiliency mechanisms.
• Shape the technical direction of AI Platform’s frontend, contributing to shared libraries, caching strategies.

Technical Fundamentals & Practices -

We’re looking for engineers who demonstrate mastery across the following practices and system fundamentals that empower to ship high-quality, low-latency conversational experiences at scale:

Browser & Rendering Fundamentals : 

• • Deep understanding of the browser’s rendering pipeline—DOM, CSSOM, layout, paint, compositing.
  • Ability to identify and fix layout thrashing, paint storms, and jank through Chrome DevTools performance profiling.
  • Knowledge of animation scheduling via requestAnimationFrame, idle callbacks, and microtask queues.Familiarity with modern web APIs such as IntersectionObserver, ResizeObserver, MutationObserver, OffscreenCanvas, Web Workers, and BroadcastChannel for concurrent or cross-tab coordination.

Asynchronous & Streaming Systems:

• • Strong command of Promises, async/await, generators, and cancellation (AbortController).
  • Familiarity with streaming data protocols (e.g., WebSockets, SSE) and patterns like batching, throttling, and debounce under load.
  • Understanding of backpressure and how to pace UI rendering vs. message ingress.

State & Data Synchronization:

• • Experience designing immutable data flows with fine-grained updates (diffs, patches, deltas).
  • Knowledge of caching, reconciliation, and hash-based change detection (e.g., djb2, CRC32, content hashing).
  • Practices for ensuring consistency between transient client state and authoritative backend models.

UI Architecture & Composition:

• • Familiarity with reactive component frameworks (Svelte preferred; React/Vue acceptable).
  • Experience isolating side effects, using stores/signals, and maintaining predictable reactivity graphs.
  • Ability to decompose large applications into feature modules with lazy loading, error boundaries, and shared design tokens.
  • Ability to evaluate and integrate across frameworks (Svelte, React, Web Components) while maintaining consistent patterns in state, testing, and accessibility.

Performance & Profiling:

• • Proven skill in measuring and optimizing UI latency (first paint, input delay, FPS stability).
  • Comfort with Chrome Performance, Lighthouse, or custom performance markers.Experience building virtualized views (infinite scroll, chat lists, large tables).

Design Systems & Accessibility:

• • Experience building and maintaining reusable design systems with Storybook, Tailwind, or Web Components.Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG, ARIA) and best practices for keyboard, color, and screen reader support.Skilled at collaborating with design teams to translate high-fidelity Figma specs into performant, production-ready components.

Resilience, Testing & Observability:

• • Writes defensive code to handle partial data, dropped connections, race conditions, and AbortErrors.
  • Understands test pyramids: unit, integration, and end-to-end (Playwright, Jest, Vitest).
  • Adds telemetry hooks and log events to diagnose production issues and user experience regressions.

Developer Experience & Tooling:

• • Comfortable configuring bundlers (Vite, Webpack) and optimizing build times.
  • Sets up linting, type checking, and pre-commit automation for consistency.
  • Experience with CI/CD, incremental testing, and feature flag rollouts.
  • Experience with AI-assisted developer tools or scripting build/test automation to improve team velocity.

Mindset:

• • You think in systems, not pages. 
  • You balance aesthetics with performance, correctness, and maintainability. You obsess over the invisible details — micro-interactions, latency, and flow — that make complex products feel effortless. 
  • You enjoy teaching others, debugging difficult issues, and making the team move faster through better abstractions.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• At least 5 years of professional frontend development experience in a production environment.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and deep understanding of asynchronous browser behavior.
• Experience with Svelte, React, or another component-based modern UI framework.
• Strong debugging and performance profiling skills.
• Experience integrating real-time or streaming data into user interfaces.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
• Additional certifications or licenses
• Skills and competencies that also include soft skills necessary for success
• Bonus: Familiarity with AI/LLM-powered interfaces, progressive streaming UIs, or data-rich visualization frameworks.
• You care deeply about user experience, developer productivity, and measurable performance — and you know that excellence in frontend engineering is achieved through curiosity, rigor, and empathy for both users and teammates.

Narvar is growing! We are looking for Senior Software Engineers that enjoy working on both APIs and UIs. In this role, you will build products that power the post-purchase experience for the biggest brands in the retail industry. As a Fullstack Software Engineer, you will have a direct impact on our customer-facing products and work with modern technologies like NodeJS, React, PostgreSQL and GraphQL to ship complex features that drive millions of views.

Day-to-day

• Implement new product features & support/ extend existing ones
• Build REST and GraphQL APIs that support a high volume of traffic
• Build frontend platform components leveraged across our internal and external products
• Contribute to our overall architecture and development experience partnering with other senior engineers

What we're looking for

• You have a BS/MS in computer science, information systems, or equivalent
• You have 7+ years of experience building reliable, scalable, and high-quality systems
• Experience with a frontend framework(s), such as React, Svelte Angular, Vue or Ember
• Experience building well-designed software with NodeJS, React and PostgreSQL
• Experience developing consumer facing applications consuming various APIs from a microservice backend system
• Experience defining REST or GraphQL APIs for new features
• Knowledge of full development life cycle and computer science fundamentals
• Experience with mentoring other engineers
• Previous startup experience strongly preferred
• Proficiency in utilising AI tools like Claude, Cursor, Copilot etc

Bonus point

• Experience working with Java, SpringBoot or Golang knowledge is a plus point

Why Narvar?

We're on a mission to simplify the everyday lives of consumers. Post-purchase is a critical phase of the customer journey. That's why we created Narvar - a platform focused on driving customer loyalty through seamless post-purchase experiences that allow retailers to retain, engage, and delight customers. If you've ever bought something online, there's a good chance you've used our platform!

From the hottest new direct-to-consumer companies to retail’s most renowned brands, Narvar works with GameStop, Neiman Marcus, Sonos, Nike, and 1300+ other brands. With hubs in San Francisco, Atlanta, London, and Bangalore, we've served over 125 million consumers worldwide across 10+ billion interactions, 38 countries, and 55 languages.

Pioneering the post-purchase movement means navigating into the unknown. Our team thrives on this sense of adventure while nurturing a mindset of innovation. We're a home for big hearts and we leave our egos at the door. We work hard but we always make time to celebrate professional wins, baby showers, birthday parties, and everything in between.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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